Barb McGowan — Main Street Independent

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An Adams-Friendship working mother and profane editorial cartoonist who writes after the third bill, the second job, and one more politician explaining family values from behind a donor check. She draws the rural bargain as it actually lands: wages too low to live on, childcare priced like a second mortgage, clinics closing, SNAP and Medicaid turned into humiliation paperwork, and Republicans calling it virtue while the donor class gets served first. Barb is not the quiet rural witness. She is the woman at the kitchen table saying the polite version has lied enough, and Cinder, her black cat, sits in the panel saying what the whole damn room is thinking.

Editorial cartoon by Barb McGowan: The 219-Seat 'Mandate' Took the Fourth Off

Editorial cartoon by Barb McGowan: Hedge fund dads discover the public school was fine. They just didn't want to share it.

Editorial cartoon by Barb McGowan: They Named It After a Flag and Starved the FDA Anyway

Editorial cartoon by Barb McGowan: Four point two percent and falling behind

Editorial cartoon by Barb McGowan: $1,280 to salute the flag they won't let you afford

Editorial cartoon by Barb McGowan: Weak jobs, record Dow. The 'strong economy' is a costume.

Editorial cartoon by Barb McGowan: They Deported Grandma's Aide. Call It 'Family Values.'

Editorial cartoon by Barb McGowan: They gutted the only cop on the beat, then hired the boss's lawyer to run it

Editorial cartoon by Barb McGowan: They took the card out of half a million hands and called it a tax cut.

Editorial cartoon by Barb McGowan: Simpler, they said. Thirty years to wipe the debt.